Jesuit missionary; arriving in New France in 1636, he was placed in charge of the western missions to the Hurons in 1645; after Iroquois attacks in 1649-1650 he brought several hundred of them as refugees to Quebec, where he authored the Jesuit Relations each year, 1645-1653.

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[Source: Veyron, Michel. Dictionnaire Canadien des Noms Propres (Quebec: Larousse, 1989)]